Alcohol, especially wine, can become complicated if you want to understand it well. Knowing which wine goes well with what and how to pick the right kind can be difficult. Even though I can easily ...

Kama Sutra, Ménage à Trois, Allure: these aren’t steamy book titles, they’re bottles of wine. Grown and produced in California, they aren’t Napa’s finest, but the lusty labels and frisky names will ...

One of the best ways to have a stress-free wine-buying experience lies in understanding their labels. Wine labels can give you more insight as to what’s inside the bottle. However, what’s listed on ...

Walking into a major grocery’s wine section can be an intimidating experience. Rather than having a local winemaker on hand to answer questions and offer tastes, a shopper is faced with a wall of ...

That “12% ABV” might not mean what you think. U.S. rules let wines under 14% alcohol vary by ±1.5%, so a bottle labeled 12% ABV could actually be anywhere from 10.5% to 13.5% ABV — a swing that ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Uncorking wine and spirits adventures around the world. Sep 08, 2024, 06:00am EDT Wine labels can unlock more secrets than you'd ...

A 2024 study (Ruiying et al.) investigates whether subtle “gender cues” on wine labels (i.e., feminine vs. masculine visual or textual cues) affect how women perceive and respond to a wine. Do ...